“Reviewer Moscow. Tel. I noticed last year that the idea of improving everything sublunar was confirmed by the Nevsky Almanac. This year is Nevs. Alm. did not destroy this comforting thought. A well-engraved portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, and two pictures, the subjects of which are taken from Boris Godunov, the tragedy of Pushkin, and the Smalholm Baron (ballads of W. Scott, translated by Zhukovsky), make up the external decoration of the Almanac...”